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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by bell-cot on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:13PM (#44714345)
At least in the US, tobacco products are generally subject to pretty strict state & local regulations and taxes. Might that have been the issue?
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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by stronglikedan on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:43PM (#44714713)
They sell tobacco products, so they would know that's not the issue.
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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by calvinmorrison on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:41PM (#44715352)
actually it's a huge issue. we had to use a non-good tech stack credit card provider that constantly went down becuase they were the only ones who would take us because we sold tobacco. No braintree or auth.net just some janky stuff from the 90s because that was the only company that fit our risk profile.

The amount of times we got paged because we coudlnt take cards was ridiculous, because we couldn't ever do anything about it.

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